Ancient Technologies Explained:The Envelope

Day 3,443, 06:27 Published in Ireland Ireland by Releasethe Krakken

To break the monotony of the government rags here is something for the university.

An envelope is a common packaging item, usually made of thin flat material. It is designed to contain a flat object, such as a letter or card.

Traditional envelopes are made from sheets of paper cut to one of three shapes: a rhombus, a short-arm cross or a kite. These shapes allow for the creation of the envelope structure by folding the sheet sides around a central rectangular area. In this manner, a rectangle-faced enclosure is formed with an arrangement of four flaps on the reverse side.



The envelope was used to send what the ancient ones called letters to a recipient.

On the front of the envelope, one would fill in the postal address of the recipient. the postal address does not refer to the location where the recipient goes postal and rage kills everyone. Rather it refers to a rectangular metal box usually found in what the ancients called post offices.

The envelope would be closed by licking a thin strip near the 2 open edges and pressing the edges together thereby closing the envelope.

People called postal workers would convey these letters to the post office of your recipient. Unlike today your recipient would not receive a notification that there was a communication for him. But he would regularly travel by carriage or other means of transport to this postal box and open it with a key. Thereupon he would inspect his postal box for letters and take it out and go and read the letters at his home.

Also, people wrote music for fenoglio about letters they were waiting for .